The American Peasantry by Ronald E Seavoy
A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial agriculture. About equal numbers of black and white sharecroppers chose to practice subsistence cultivation in order to minimize agricultural labor. The study begins with pre-Civil War slave plantations and the landless white peasants who migrated to North America to escape full-time paid labor in Britain. Seavoy then describes and analyzes the operation of the postbellum sharecrop system and related Back Caste System; the different origins of southern and northern Populism; the massive displacement of southern peasants (after 1950) when cotton cultivation was fully mechanized, and how the voluntary joblessness of the urban underclass has been perpetuated by the welfare entitlements of the Great Society.-
Beyond the Adirondacks
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Smarter Growth
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Public Policy and the Quality of Life
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Immigrants and Immigrants
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Change Agents at Work
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Comparative Industrial Relations in Europe
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Iraq's Burdens
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Poverty, Female-Headed Households, and Sustainable Economic Development
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Rural Development Research
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Essays in Southern Labor History
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Liberalization and the Turkish Economy
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Recent Industrialization Experience of Turkey in a Global Context
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Treasure from the Painted Hills
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The Role of Precious Metals in European Economic Development
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The Post-Cold War Armored Vehicle Industries in Britain, Germany, and France
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The Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe
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Inequality and Equity
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Marxism and Workers' Self-Management
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Economic Barbarism and Managerialism
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The Politics of Economic Restructuring and Democracy in Africa
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Ideology and Utopia in the Social Philosophy of the Libertarian Economists
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The Theory of Aggregate Investment in Closed Economic Systems
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Night Boat to New England, 1815-1900
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Energy and Organization
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Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa
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The Theory of Aggregate Investment and Output Dynamics in Open Economic Systems
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State Per-Capita Income Change Since 1950
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The Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment Debates
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Rural Change in the Third World
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Aspirations and Realities
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Making Markets
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Space and Transport in the World-System
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Privatization in the Developing World
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Economics and Policymaking
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Marching Orders
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Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor
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The Econometrics of Disequilibrium Models
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The American Pulp and Paper Industry, 1900-1940
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Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes
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Corporate Hegemony
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Privatization or Public Enterprise Reform?
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New Perspectives on Social Class and Socioeconomic Development in the Periphery
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Textiles in Transition
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Military Spending and Industrial Decline
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Business Finance in Less Developed Capital Markets
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Machines and Economic Growth
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The Logic of Privatization
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American Trade Policy, 1923-1995
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Small and Medium Enterprises
RONALD E. SEAVOY is with the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington. Previous books by the author include The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784-1855 (Greenwood, 1982), Famine in Peasant Societies (Greenwood, 1986), and Famine in East Africa (Greenwood, 1989).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780313275111 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313275114 |
| Title | The American Peasantry |
| Author | Ronald E Seavoy |
| Series | Contributions In Economics And Economic History Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 1998-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 616 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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